Our behaviour as an athlete is often determined by our previous experiences and how we dealt with those experiences. It is these… — David Horne Copy Share Image
Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the economic realm.… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act - if you can't… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Pirates are the very essence of profit maximising entrepreneurs described in neoclassical economics. Yet, whilst films such as 'The Pirates of the… — Peter Middlebrook Copy Share Image
“Even as rigorous a determinist as Karl Marx, who at times described the social behaviour of the bourgeoisie in terms which suggested… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating -… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
“We have sinners who are doing godly things and Christians who are doing evil things. The reason is the sinners focuses on… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope...… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
On the cautionary side, Universal Jurisdiction could be used to achieve some kind of ideologically motivated criminalisation of 'the other' that would… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a… — Kristin Davis Copy Share Image
When I look back at the church I grew up in, I realise that nothing about its behaviour was very Christian. It… — James Corden Copy Share Image
The reason that I think it is a waste of time to engage in moral value judgements about people's violence, is because… — James Gilligan Copy Share Image
I was told that I had very likely been clinically depressed for a long, long time, probably since I was 15, or… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
No one ever questions the disorder behind her tarantula LA glamour – sociopathy, narcissism – because it’s good rock and roll, good… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
And then certainly, whatsoever you do - your character, your behaviour - is yours, authentically yours. It has your signature on it.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of Dr. Seuss's better-known work, but his fables leave me awe-struck. 'Ten Tall Tales' is a collection of… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image
People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and… — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage,… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
I accepted that a new kind of hate had emerged, silent and disciplined, a racism tempered by loyalty cards and PIN numbers.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since the police department is becoming more and more militarized we're stuck in a position where we're reverting to that sort of… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
While our behavior is still significantly controlled by our genetic inheritance, we have, through our brains, a much richer opportunity to blaze… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
“You can be in your room and lead people. Just develop your potentials and publicize them and you will see people looking… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will,… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
A mans behaviour is the index of his mind... A man who praises himself displays his deficiency of intellect... A man's worth… — Gamze Copy Share Image
“In dealing with many words and different cultures every day, I have come to realize that the essence of life can be… — Soar Soaring-Words.com Copy Share Image
When you live with Dickens for years, reading him and trying to present him as faithfully as you can, you can't fail… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
“Most of the world’s problems are caused by people who made education compulsory, but personal development optional. Because of them, we have… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behaviour and the spere in which… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the time to act is now. It is now that timely action can avert disaster. It is… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I've never tried to measure myself on any scale. A person is more multifaceted than the label they often get stuck with.… — Dmitry Medvedev Copy Share Image
She had never been a proficient flirt. Her spasms of kittenish behaviour were graceless and inept, like normal conversation on roller skates.… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“When you are in the company of lunatics, behave like a lunatic. When you are in the company of intelligentsias, speak with… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour towards… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
